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The departure from Africa

The Homo erectus tribe participates in the hunt. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Continuing the Tracing of Human Descent: The Impact of Climate on Out-of-Africa Migration

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Sediment studies in the Mediterranean reveal the existence of a green corridor in the Sahara desert that emerged at the exact time when our ancestors migrated from Africa about 2.1 million years ago
Illustration - Exploitation of a large-headed midge. Credit - Tel Aviv University

The earliest evidence of giant fish being cooked by early man has been uncovered, about 780,000 years ago

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This is the earliest evidence of self-initiated cooking with fire. A global breakthrough by the Hebrew Universities, Bar Ilan and Tel Aviv in collaboration with Oranim College and the Sea and Lake Research Institute
The current excavations in the Bechu Kiru cave in the 2021 season are revealing new objects from the Middle Paleolithic Neanderthal occupation. You can see the main Upper Paleolithic layer 1 as a dark band in the sediment profile. The diggers use masks and gloves to minimize contamination of the samples that are regularly taken for molecular analysis. Credit: MPI-EVA/ Tsenka Tsanova

Archaeological evidence shows that early Homo sapiens in Europe faced sub-Arctic climates

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New insights into the climatic background of an early dispersal wave of our species into Europe during the last Ice Age.
Reconstruction of the maned rat - Aya Mark

A rodent that lived in the Judean desert 100 years ago reveals the "ecological corridors" for leaving Africa

The researchers even identified that the genetic closeness indicates a split between the maned rats of today and those found in the Judean desert about 120 thousand years ago
A group of Neanderthals prepares to hunt. Photo: depositphotos.com

Out of Africa: In the wake of modern man and the Neanderthals he met

Scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science and archaeologists from the Antiquities Authority returned to the archaeological site of Boker Attama in the Negev, and shed new light on a defining chapter in human evolution
Prof. Yoel Rak. Courtesy of the Israeli National Academy of Sciences

"The diversity of human races also stems from aesthetic preferences"

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Says Prof. Yoel Rak, a member of the Academy of Sciences and one of the lecturers at the online conference "Origin of Homo Sapiens" that will be held on Darwin Day - 11/2 at Zoom. According to him, there are endless races without a clear border between them, but the changes that exist make it possible to reconstruct the human journey. Prof. Arala Khobars and Dr. Assaf Marom will also participate in the conference
The human jaw from Mycelia Cave. Photo: Israel Hershkovitz, Tel Aviv University

200,000-year-old fossils from a cave in Carmel indicate that man's departure from Africa occurred precisely during the Ice Age

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Mycelia's jaw. Courtesy of Tel Aviv University.

The oldest human fossil outside of Africa is found in Israel

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A skull from Jebel Ayehud. Source: Ryan Somma.

Fossils from Morocco complicate the story of the origin of modern man

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Neanderthal man - from Wikipedia, illustration from the 19th century Public domain image

What caused the extinction of the Neanderthals?

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Map of the spread of man from Africa. From Wikipedia

Researchers have discovered a role in DNA mutations that occurred before the human migration from Africa to the rest of the world

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A genome sequence from 225 Ethiopians and Egyptians led to the fact that the exit from Africa was made through Egypt and from there humans spread to all of Eurasia. Illustration: Luca Pagani.

Genomes of Ethiopians and Egyptians help map the migration routes of humanity out of Africa

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A modern human skull from 55 thousand years ago that was discovered in Menot Cave in the Western Galilee. Photo: Clara Amit, courtesy of the Antiquities Authority

A skull discovered in the Western Galilee proves that modern man migrated from Africa about 65 thousand years ago

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Fiesborough Beaches in the UK: photographing footprints facing south

Human footprints from 800 years ago, the oldest outside of Africa, were discovered in England

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Neanderthal man - from Wikipedia, illustration from the 19th century Public domain image

Decoding the genome has yielded evidence of hybridization between Homo sapiens and Neanderthal man

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